B.0 About cURL

cURL is an open source command line tool for making HTTP requests. It typically comes installed on on Linux and Mac computers and can be downloaded for other platforms, including Windows, from the cURL Download page.

The following describes the options that are used throughout the Filr REST tutorial. Full documentation is available on the cURL Documentation page.

The general syntax is: curl [options] <url>

Option

Description

-k

Do not verify SSL certificates for HTTPS requests

-u [username]:[password]

User credentials for basic authentication

-v

Verbose; show additional output, including the request and response headers